“More than a quarter of all national parks preserve Civil War sites or tell stories related to the war,” National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said in a news release. “This website offers a single online point of reference for the National Park Service’s Civil War resources and will be an invaluable tool for both students of the Civil War and visitors to our historic sites.

“It also gives the war and events that occurred a century and a half ago meaning to 21st-century Americans,” Jarvis added.